Q: You never did get it on with Roy, why was that? Who was ducking who Nigel? NB: It's not for me to say. But I'll tell you this - Jones had a choice, his choice was to fight the champion Nigel Benn in a barn-burner or the contender Bernard Hopkins in a snooze-fest. He chose Bernard Hopkins. Jones can't deny that because it's what happened. He won one of the WBC International belts at super middle at the same time that I was the main WBC super middle belt holder, when Chris Eubank had one of those WBC International belts he landed a fight with me shortly after. Okay, Jones had been the mandatory for the IBF middle but he was also offered the chance to fight me for my main WBC belt at his new weight and I was up for it. I was right up for it. I saw some of his fights and rubbed my hands together because I knew it could be a right old tear-up. But why would Jones drop back down to middle to fight for a lesser title? I don't know, only he can answer that. Can you really blame Jones for not taking the fight? I mean Jones was too inexperienced at that time in '93. Who did he even beat Vaca? Castro didn't have a name until '94 when he beat Reggie. That's all there is too it really. and regarding Chris Eubank. Eubank wanted to fight Jones in '96. Eubank didn't want to fight Roy Jones before that. Why would Jones fight Eubank in '96 when Eubank lost twice the year before aginst Collins. The only reason was to have a big money fight that's it. Nigel and Chris both respect Jones as a fighter though. They say it would have been there toughest challenge ever. Even Eubank said Jones would have probably beat him.
Bernard was a much more dangerous fighter than Benn and Eubank,imo. And a foreigner winning a decision in England, although not as hard in Germany, would be tough.
